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Aug. 8. Breakfasted with Mr. Todd. . . . Dined in Hall. . . . 

 In the evening went to a party given by the College of Physicians ; 

 did not break up till late : a lecture, and then supper. 



Aug. 9. Sunday. Went to Christchurch ; a modernized church, 

 spoiled by being so. 



Aug. 11. Dined in the gardens of the Zoological Society; the 

 public admitted in the evening, when 8000 people were present. 



Aug. 13. Went with Mackay and others by the railroad to Kings- 

 town, and by car to Killiney Hill ; on the sands near which found 



Polygonum intermedium, etc. 



Aug. 14. Breakfasted at the Dublin Society's Botanical Garden, 

 •Glasnevin; at 12 noon started sixteen in company, for Howth Hill. 

 At Baldoyle we saw Viola Curtisii, Carex distans, Blysmus rufus, 

 Statice spath., etc. Howth Hill is very fine, and gives a beautiful 

 view of Dublin Bay. 



Aug. 15. Last day of the Meeting. Trinity College dined 300 

 in the Examination Hall : the dinner most splendid. Before dinner 

 the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Mulgrave) knighted Professor Hamilton 

 in the College Library. 



Aug. 19. Mr. Maclean, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Cullagh, and I went 

 by the canal to Lexlip ; saw Mr. Cavendish's place there, and found 

 on ivy Orohanche minor. There is a very pretty waterfall there, 

 •called the Salmon leap. Returned by Lucan and Palmerstown. 



Aug. 20. Left Dublin by coach at 8.30 a.m. for Birr or Parsons- 

 town. After passing Naas, at Kildare, saw the first of the celebrated 

 Round Towers ; it is, if I do not mistake, one of the finest in Ireland ; 

 near it are the remains of an old monastic building, in much greater 

 •decay than the Tower. Passed the following towns : Monasterevan, 

 Portarlington, Mount Mellick. {Note. — All the places mentioned 

 above show evident marks of not being in a prosperous state.) 

 Reached Birr at about 6.15 p.m., and proceeded in a car to Portumna. 



Aug. 21. Mr. Ball and his son came to meet the Lord Lieutenant 

 (Lord Mulgrave), who took lunch at the castle. After he was gone, 

 J. Ball and I went to the castle, Lady Clanricarde wishing us to 

 dine and sleep there. 



Aug. 22. We walked in the morning to a spot some distance 

 down the lake to have a view of Lough Dearg. It is very fine from 

 thence, i. e. from a hill covered by a long plantation. Saw Gentiana 

 ^campestris and G. Amarella, Char a hispida, Juniperus communis, etc. 

 Started for Loughrea. 



Aug. 23. Sunday. Breakfasted with Mr. Daly, of Mount 

 Pleasant; and after church went with Charles Burke to Marble 

 Jlill. 



